 MyAnimeList has just launched a brand new Free Manga service with manga chapters from five titles—available for free! All you need is a MyAnimeList account and you're ready to start reading. Thanks to the support of the series' publishers who made this service possible, we are also excited to announce that the service is open to our world-wide community. We know many of our users live in countries with small licensed manga markets or are otherwise unable to easily access manga legally. With this Free Manga service, we hope to create more opportunities for all MyAnimeList users to read manga and discover new titles. While the service has opened with only five manga series, our goal is to keep expanding the catalogue with the support of publishers. How does it work? The Free Manga service acts similar to a magazine: chapters will be made available on specific time cycles, so you can't read all chapters at once. Titles will also not be fixed: series will disappear some time after the last free chapters have been made available, replaced by first chapters of new series. Finally, of the titles we have so far, not all chapters will be made available for free; if you'd like to continue reading the series beyond the free chapters, you will need to purchase those volumes from eBook sellers. We hope everyone will give the Free Manga service a try—and keep an eye on it for new titles, too! Edit: Unfortunately, Japan is excluded from the Free Manga service. All other locations should be able to access normally. Please let me know if you encounter issues and you are not in Japan. |
KinetaDec 20, 2019 4:06 PM
| I’m extremely excited we’re able to now offer free manga to our users! By showing your support and reading the available titles, we’ll hopefully be able to add more content in the future. I hope everyone enjoys this new benefit to using MAL! |
| Yay! I'm excited to read "Somali and the Forest Spirit" and "King's Game!!" |
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| Free Manga service says: "Free Manga is not available in your country." It's completely useless. |
| Sounds fun! That way even manga which have yet to get an adaptation may get the attention and love they need to get people to buy them Good idea |
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| Media Do Acquires MyAnimeList Website >Media Do distributes e-books for many Japanese publishers https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-01-15/media-do-acquires-myanimelist-website/.142092 it makes total sense now if this gets big hopefully the wealth will trickle down unlike in the anime industry |
| The concept sounds similar to the MANGA Plus service by SHUEISHA. Coincidentally, SHUEISHA holds a 3.60% stake in Media Do, the parent company of MyAnimeList. |
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| This sounds neat. And it actually works in my country yay!!! |
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StormSky92 said: Ah yes. Another for-profit new feature. Meanwhile bots are downranking Chihayafuru III all to the hell, manga database entry queue is behind by over 6000 because of inadequate number of DB mods, and site itself hasn't had any meaningful interface updates in years. well if they got more profit from this they can hire more developers lol |
| This is amazing! i just started reading Somali to Mori no Kamisama which is my first ever manga, and it´s amazing so far. I can´t belive i never read any manga before this one, i belive i always thought it was easier to just watch the anime of a manga rather than reading it. From now on i will deff read way more manga! Thank you MAL for this! Much love! |
| Wow this is awesome, big up for this one. The reader is pretty great, no problems at all, and the fact that you guys got Baki in there is crazy. Keep up the good work, hopefully we manage to make MAL get its hands on the big running series soon. Big support for this. |
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| That's nice.It'll help the manga readers to search better mangas. |
| "When they're alive, you can enjoy watching them struggle. When they're dead, you can enjoy tearing out their guts. Tales are things you get to enjoy twice." |
| Really nice idea, thanks a lot! |
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| Love this idea!!! Hopefully the titles will be more inclusive and will include shounen-ai and shoujo-ai titles as well, eventually! |
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| Wow, this is awesome! Thank you loads, MAL! Looking forward to seeing where this goes over time! |
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| I RotFLMAO'ed at the manga choice. Literally, the only one at least somewhat decent (i.e. not bad, just mediocre) is pirate Somali manga. Everything other sits between outright horrible and just flat out bad. In short, it's the manga that nobody wants to read anyway, so Media Do not loose any money over people reading it for free. What can I say - great way to make people interested in buying manga, LoL. |
 There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value.  Persona anime are good. Deal with it. |
JeForceX said: The concept sounds similar to the MANGA Plus service by SHUEISHA. Coincidentally, SHUEISHA holds a 3.60% stake in Media Do, the parent company of MyAnimeList. Except they keep the FREE part of the FREE Manga going all the way to the end! At least for older titles. I'm nearly up to chapter 50 of Tokyo Ghoul and not a penny spent. |
| Very nice iniciative. JeForceX said: The concept sounds similar to the MANGA Plus service by SHUEISHA. Coincidentally, SHUEISHA holds a 3.60% stake in Media Do, the parent company of MyAnimeList. 3% is a irrelevant number of shares owned to influence anything. |
| Great, interesting project |
ClickBaitBuster said: Well, that's great and all but.. holy fuck does the reader suck, and there is no long-strip mode? seriously are you expecting me to click tens of times to turn pages every chapter? I never understood why would anyone want to use the paged mode over the long-strip, who even invented that shit to begin with? shit's unpractical af. you could have suggested a scroll mode instead of that rant lol but i agree if they are worried about overloading bandwidth then they can just do lazy loading of images anyway |
| No love for military? Come on MAL, after 10 years of continued service, I should be treated better than this. If you're going to provide a free manga service, make it available to everyone, regardless of region |
| Sounds good, has potential to be something engaging. Keep up the good work~ |
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| Thank you so much for the free manga! I ♥ U MAL ★ |
| mhhh, well good luck for these big moves MAL, I hope it'll change something... Also no way I'm going to use it tho. |
| Interesting, but i definitely won't be using it. Meanwhile Chihayafuru's score is crying in the corner. |
| I really wish they were free in Japan. Enjoy the free manga rest of the world.~☆♡ |
 サディスティックな考え "JUST KILL ME." サディスティックマインド |
| Nice feature, but with room for improvement. The controls feel a bit awkward, when zoomed the page flip option is disabled on the mouse. Try reading with a 125%-150% zoom with mouse only. |
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"""free""" MAL staff should focus on accepting users' database entries and not touch anything else. |
| Very nice |
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AnimeEater-sama said: YumioSF said: Yay! I'm excited to read "Somali and the Forest Spirit" and "King's Game!!" I'm sure majority of the readers liked these two manga series on the catalogue True. You're right! |
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| After all those years of human evolution in the tecnological field, they choose to use a horizontal reader without a option for a vertical one(scroll up/down). But, thats a great feature for the website! Very nice. |
DetDec 27, 2019 1:20 PM
Progeusz said: You know there had to be a catch to it. At least a bit is free still."""free""" MAL staff should focus on accepting users' database entries and not touch anything else. |
サディスティックな考え "JUST KILL ME." サディスティックマインド |
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